Yesterday, a friend and I replaced his two old 1TB drives with three Samsung 850 Pro SSD drives. A 512 GB drive for the boot drive and two 1TB drives for other stuff with two partitions on each. First we just connected the 512 GB drive and installed Windows 7 Pro SP-1 on it leaving about 10 gigs unformatted for the OP. Then we connected the other two SSD drives and used Acronis to restore two of the partitions to the first 1TB SSD leaving some space free on it too. Then we decided to put the Samsung Magician on to see if it would say for sure how much OP space to leave unformatted. So we installed it. Right away it wanted to update it's self, so we did that. We saw that it wanted 45GB for the 512 OP and 95GB for the 1TB drives. So I used EaseUS Partition Manager (because I really don't like the partition management software built into Windows) and made enough unformatted space on the boot drive and the first 1TB drive. I then restored the last two partitions to the second 1TB drive and then resized to make enough unformatted space. Each drive did take the unfomatted space at the end of the drive for OP.
For some reason though, at the top, there is an orange triangle at the top with an exclimation in it and it says "Note: Using a RAW partition may damage your data. OP can be set or cleared only for the last accessible partition. In EaseUS Partiton Master Professional Edition, C is a primary NTFS partition, the other partitions are NTFS and logical. The free space is just unallocated logical. All three drives it says this at the top, but they all list the unallocated space as the OP. The buttons at the bottom for set and clear OP seem to be right as well. Set is greyed out, but if I click the clear OP button, after a bit of a delay I can set it again.
I noticed someone else was having problems with this error but it wasn't completing. That person was told to turn on defrag service to manual and use the Windows disk management to shrink a partition. I tried that too. It was set to manual so I started it. In Windows disk management, after shrinking the partition changed from being called unformatted to free space, but still shows the note about RAW partitions. I tried disabling the defrag service and the Magician software didn't like that. I had to switch it back on to manual.
The only thing I haven't tried yet is letting the last partition use all the hard drive space and see if the Samsung Magician software would cut off the end of the partition for it's self. From all the posts about OP, I thought you were not supposed to format the space that would be used for OP. From the way the note is worded, it sounds like maybe it is should be formatted as part of the last partition and either the Magician software will just lock it from use by me or shrink the partition on it's own and use the free space it created.
Should I try expanding the partitions, after clearing the OP, to use the full space and see what the Magician software does or is this just some note that is always up there?
:: Update ::
Well, I went ahead and cleared the OP on each drive. When I did, it added the space to the last partition. Then I set the OP to recommended size and it made the unformatted partitions and claimed them as OP. Still have the note about using RAW partitions.
For some reason though, at the top, there is an orange triangle at the top with an exclimation in it and it says "Note: Using a RAW partition may damage your data. OP can be set or cleared only for the last accessible partition. In EaseUS Partiton Master Professional Edition, C is a primary NTFS partition, the other partitions are NTFS and logical. The free space is just unallocated logical. All three drives it says this at the top, but they all list the unallocated space as the OP. The buttons at the bottom for set and clear OP seem to be right as well. Set is greyed out, but if I click the clear OP button, after a bit of a delay I can set it again.
I noticed someone else was having problems with this error but it wasn't completing. That person was told to turn on defrag service to manual and use the Windows disk management to shrink a partition. I tried that too. It was set to manual so I started it. In Windows disk management, after shrinking the partition changed from being called unformatted to free space, but still shows the note about RAW partitions. I tried disabling the defrag service and the Magician software didn't like that. I had to switch it back on to manual.
The only thing I haven't tried yet is letting the last partition use all the hard drive space and see if the Samsung Magician software would cut off the end of the partition for it's self. From all the posts about OP, I thought you were not supposed to format the space that would be used for OP. From the way the note is worded, it sounds like maybe it is should be formatted as part of the last partition and either the Magician software will just lock it from use by me or shrink the partition on it's own and use the free space it created.
Should I try expanding the partitions, after clearing the OP, to use the full space and see what the Magician software does or is this just some note that is always up there?
:: Update ::
Well, I went ahead and cleared the OP on each drive. When I did, it added the space to the last partition. Then I set the OP to recommended size and it made the unformatted partitions and claimed them as OP. Still have the note about using RAW partitions.
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